Chi is home!! Ashley and Anne brought Chi home in a medic van a few days ago. Unfortunately when we put the finger monitor on his finger, fear set in. His oxygen (O2) saturation level was at a level so low that they were afraid to leave him here. We tried to arouse him but couldn’t. We tried to get him to take breaths deep enough to get the O2 to his brain, hands and extremities but we couldn’t.

The medics said that he must go straight back to the emergency room asap and went outside to call their dispatcher to send a fully equipped ambulance to transport him. Mae and I went in the next room for a minute and agreed “No more hospitals.” (I will tell you later just how rough it was in the hospital even with good Doctors and good nurses and staff.)

Mae and I went back to Chi with a mix of panic and resolve. I grabbed him and started shaking his limp body shouting at him to wake up and open his eyes. Mae went straight for a towel and covered his mouth tightly. Chi is a mouth breather and the O2 was going through a tube in his nose. Apologies to anyone who is horrified by this but desperate times call for desperate measures. Within a minute his eyes were wide open staring straight at his always loving sister in disbelief with a shocked look of “WTF! REALLY? REALLY? YOU ARE GONNA COVER MY MOUTH??” He had no choice but to breathe through his nose. It got the oxygen in his lungs and his O2 level shot up to 98% by the time the girls came back inside. To their total surprise he now seemed to be doing great. They cancelled the ambulance and moved him from the gurney to his bed.

Mae and I knew that his care was going to be a whole lot more difficult than it had been at home before. Along with Sal, Ming, Chris and a wonderful daytime caregiver, Phyllis, he is never left alone for a minute.

Night time he goes into trouble. His blood pressure and heart rate go too high or too low and the O2 level goes too low. It is a nightly battle to keep him under control. Days are better and he has gotten stronger each day.

The doctor he had prior to his trip to New Jersey came over yesterday to catch up on his status and history for the past year and a half. We love our Dr. Joe! He asked us to tell him our goals for Chi. They are:
1. Keep him out of the hospital with all of it’s bacteria. He is a germ magnet and will only get sicker.
2.Improve his very low immunity and get him stronger.
3. Slowly add back most of the wake up medications and supplements to help his brain recover and his functions return.
(For myself I want to Pray Harder, Blog every couple of days, and finally, be deserving of God’s blessings and the miracle that we expect.)

I owe all of you, our extended family, for bringing him home. Your prayers, love and support got him back to California. You brought him back out of the hospital and home with his family. Without God’s hand on him I am sure he would not have come back home. May you have all the blessings you have given returned to you all.

We thank you with love and grateful hearts. OneLove, Mom J, Ming, Mae, and the Cheng gang

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So...down to E again or a 9 string guitar with a really low B?